– Elizabeth Barbella, President & CEO
To make a contribution to the TCFMSL Environmental Action Fund, click on the preferred method below.
All contributions will receive a charitable tax receipt.
Grants issued to Organizations from the Environmental Action Fund:
| City of Port St Lucie | to support the Smithsonian Water/Ways Exhibition. |
| Lighthouse ArtCenter Inc | matching grant to support two solo conservation exhibitions for display in Tallahassee’s Florida Capital Building and the Elliot Museum in Stuart. |
| Ocean Research & Conservation Association | matching grant to support the Citizen Science/Pollution Mapping Project. |
| Ocean Research & Conservation Association | matching grant to support the Buffering Shorelines Project. |
| Ocean Research & Conservation Association | matching grant to support the Pollution Mapping Projects. |
| Ocean Research & Conservation Association | to support the purchase of a vehicle that will be equipped for field research. |
| Temple Beit HaYam Inc | to support the educational presentation by Dr. Edie Widder entitled “Our Endangered Waters: What We Can Do to Save Them”. |
| The Everglades Foundation | matching grant to support the Everglades Literacy Program. |
The Community Foundation’s Environmental Action Fund was created by Bud Jordan and Tom Buhr in 2019 to address environmental issues on the Treasure Coast, particularly water quality and its impact on human and animal health. It was specifically designed to be able to accept contributions from interested donor. All contributions are pooled for strategic grant making led by the team at The Community Foundation. All grants go to vetted not for profit organizations working in the fields of water and environmental protection and preservation. Grant recipients are monitored to ensure that grant dollars are used for their intended purpose and that projects and programs are successful.
The goal of the fund is to support research that provides actionable data and projects that ensure ongoing education for residents and future generations of Floridians about their role in protecting and preserving water and the environment and their ability to affect real change.
The Environmental Action Fund has awarded grants to a variety of projects including, ORCA (Ocean Research Conversation Association) for their extensive pollution mapping research, The Everglades Foundation for their Literacy Programs, Loxa-Lucie Headwaters Initiative for land conservation and a Smithsonian water quality education event in Fort Pierce.
Questions, please call 772.288.3795 or email Elizabeth Barbella at [email protected].